Allyn Fives

Evaluating parental power

An exercise in pluralist political theory

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Produktbeschreibung

When and for what reasons does parentsâ power have legitimacy? How do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? A number of specific case studies are examined in detail and an argument is made for a pluralist approach both to the conceptualisation of power and to its normative evaluation. -- .

Produktdetails

• Social and Political Power
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781784994327
• ISBN-10: 1784994324
• Artikelnr.: 47663202

Autorenporträt

Allyn Fives is Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology and the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: philosophy, power, and parents Part I: Paternalism and its
limits 2 Paternalism 3 Caretaker or liberator? Part II: Conceptual and
metholodogical issues 4 Moral dilemmas 5 Children's agency 6 Parental power
7 Normative legitimacy Part III: The moral legitimacy of parental power 8
Legitimacy in the political domain and in the family 9 Licensing,
monitoring, and training parents 10 Children and the provision of informed
consent 11 Sharing lives, shaping values, and voluntary civic education 12
Conclusion Index